Combined table and bath-tub



(No Model.) W- H LINK COMBINED TABLE AND BATH TUB.

Patented Aug. 18, 1896.

ATTORNEYS.

NlTED STATES ATENT FFIcE.

XVILLIAM HENRY LINK, OF NEWV RICHMOND, WVISCONSIN.

COMBINED TABLE AND BATH-TUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,197, dated August 18, 1896.

Application filed December 18, 1895. Serial No. 572,565. No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY LINK, of New Richmond, in the county of St. Croix and State of W'isconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Table and Bath-Tub, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of a combined table and bath-tub, which is adapted to serve the purposes of either of these articles and yet occupy the space of but one.

It consists of a table having hinged to one of its legs a bath-tub so arranged as to fold under the table, and having also the leg and cross piece of the other end of the table hinged so as to swing out of the way when folding the bath-tub under or out from the table, as hereinafter more fully described with reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of my co1nbined table and bath-tub with the tub folded under the table and secured in place, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same with the bath-tub swung out for use.

In the drawings, A is the table-top supported upon four legs, of which the three legs A A A are rigid, while the fourth one, A, is connected to a cross-piece E, which is hinged at e to the table-leg A so as to swing outwardly, as seen in Fig. 2.

B is the bath-tub, which may be of any approved construction, and is preferably supported upon caster-feet b, so as to readily roll over the floor. This tub is hinged at its square end to one of the rigid legs, A of the table, so as to permit the whole of the tub to fold under the table. This hinge F is of that form which has detachable leaves and a removable pin a, so that when desired the pin may be removed and the tub entirely disconnected from the table and transported to any part of the house, and for this purpose it is also provided at its ends with handles 0.

D is a discharge-outlet for the water, and C is a hook connected to the leg A and adapted to pass through a loop or staple on the tub to fasten it in place under the table, as shown in Fig. 1.

With this combined article it will be seen that the parts coact with each other-i. 6., the

tub, when folded under the table, braces and strengthens the latter, and when turned out for use the table forms a convenient adjunct for holding the clothing, towels, soap-trays, 620., when using the tub.

I am aware that bathing cabinets have been provided with adjustable bath-tubs in their lower compartments which were adapted to either slide or swing outwardly, but I do not know that a bath-tub and table have ever been combined so as to aiford the individual uses of either or the combined uses of both at the same time, and with a construction that occupies no more space than either one of these articles alone.

It will be seen in my construction also that the free end of the top of the bath-tub is made straight and square or right angular, and fits, when closed, to or against the hinged leg A and piece E of the table. This square construction permits the bath-tub to be made cheaply with straight ends and secures a solid bracing effect against the end piece E of the table, such construction being rendered possible by the hinged character of the end piece E and its leg A, for it will be seen that as the diagonal measurement of the tub is greater than the length of its side the piece E and leg A must be hinged and first moved back, as indicated in Fig. 2, before the tub can be turned out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A combined table and bath-tub, the table having rigid legs at one end and a swinging leg and end piece at the other end, a swinging bath-tub hinged at one end to a rigid leg of the table and having a square or right-angular free end extending up to the swinging leg and end piece of the table and adapted to swing under the table or out from the same, and a fastening device for locking the swinging leg in its closed position when the bathtub is under the table substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM. HENRY LINK.

Witnesses:

J. W. MCCOY, O. M. GORHAM. 

